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Guinness heiress admits to crush on gorgeous IRA chief

SHE is Martin McGuinness’s most unlikely fan: a Guinness heiress has admitted having a lifelong crush on the former IRA leader.

Marina Guinness, 42, says she still has a soft spot for the republican icon who became her teenage pin-up after Bloody Sunday in 1972. She had copies of republican youth magazines posted to her so she could keep track of McGuinness, but they were frequently intercepted by staff at her school.

Such was her fervour that Guinness was expelled from an English boarding school as a teenager after she was blamed for IRA slogans that were painted on the walls of the lavatories. Guinness denied the offence. The punishment fuelled rather than dimmed her ardour for McGuinness, then an IRA commander in Derry.

“He was my pin-up, he was so gorgeous,” she said last week. “Every teenager needs a figure like that in her life. I was 12, he